Fodder and method of making same.



VALDEMAR CHRISTENSEN, OF MEXICO, MEXICO.

I ODDER AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed July 30, 1912.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Serial No. 712,262.

To (ZZZ 111/2 out it may (:onmo'a Be it known hat l, V.\1.on.u.\R (,llnns'rnissex, a subject oi. the King of l )enmark, residing at Mexico city, Federal District, Mexico. have in vented certain new and use- :t'ul improvements in lfiodder and .Nlethods ot lvtaking Same, ol which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a product that will. satisfy all scientific and practitail re tjllll'el'lltlllh tor a good t'odder, while it contains -arbo-hydrate and organic nitrogenous suliistances and several salts, especially phosphates, besides a proportion of cellulose as an indigcstible matter, for invigorating the intestines, and whereby the quantity ot excretnents is augmented.

I have produced a :todder, which the live stock willingly eat and stand very well, that will augment the formation of milk in cows, increases the working power of horses. mules, etc, and is useful for fattening of cattle; it is cheap, easy to transport and may be well conserved At the same time it renders valuable, certain secondary agricultural products which were either almost wasted or used in profitless industrial enterprises.

The incorporated substances of which my improved fodder composed I divide in three groups namely I. (ilarbohydrate matter, which I extract from different fleshy and saccharine plants, especially the simulate, the cacti and the like, growing on the deserts and dry tracts of land, using the pulp, the juice or the entire leaves without the hard cuticle (epidermis) Among the ltlexican fibrous lly'vmm plants exploited due to the fibers, ll mention the heuequcn lgane 'Fif/idfb), lechuguilla,

Zea-pinas$ :*i 3 aim-rightma). 'lhe juicy pulp stripped from the hene uen tibers. and the other mentioned lg'owcs, has not been success'tully converted into alcohol while, hesides tcrnurntable sugar, it contains pento- ;sans (a carl'io-hydratecomposed of sugar used by chopping, triturating or pressing the leaves, which contain a green juice, different from the mentioned saps. The valuable flowering saps are employed for other purposes with greater profit. Fin'thermore the saccharine pulp of the cacti, especially the nopals (Opuntiw) and the organs (Um-mm) maybe used. The varieties 01" the nopals without thorns have been used in natural state as a fodder, likewise the leaves of some of the mentioned .l g(z'1.'e.s',-but not for the preparing of a complete conservablc nutriment as I have invented. The juice or pulp of the entire leaves is concentrated by vaporation, to render a conservable vegetal extract containing about of moisture, or it is dried to contain about 10% of moisture, the product being rich in saccharine and gummy substances, namely digestible carbohydrate matter-,besides smaller quantities of other nutritive compositions. The sugar and gum in this extract will substitute the tecula of the cereals, to which it equals in nutritive value, but being more rapidly and easily assimilated; this extract-would be similar tofodderand sugar-beets, suppoe ing they were deprived of the principal part of their moisture.

Tl. Organic nitrogen: For this I employ healthy concentrated or dried blood, from the slaughter houses, preferably dried; this contains large quantities of albuminoid matter easily digestible and furthermore phosphates as well as other useful mineral substances:

lt is used and known that blood is better conserved when sugar is added; thus when blood is intermingled with my saccharine extract, put-reliving is avoided.

Instead of the blood, there may be employed a vegetal waste material rich in proteids, like those obtained in the oil cake industry or the residues left after, the pressingot oleaginous seeds, or bean meal.

lll. Substances principally containing cellulose, and therefore more or less indigcstible, like dry straws, StQIl'lS of maize, and especially the residues remaining when pressing the pulp for the pre mration of the said ca rho-hydrate matter of the first group:

The necessary quantities of the materials of the groups I and II, or of the three groups, are mingled together, in proportions depending upon the previous analysis of each component, to obtain a fodder of a composition and nutritive value similar to maize and other cereals; the saccharine and gummy substances being assimilatable carbo-. hydrates as well as the fecula. The mixed components are dried if necessary, ground and compressed into compact cakes in which form they may be stored occupying comparatively small spaces, or they may remain disseminated.

The quantities may be more or less as shown in the following examples:

A. Using the concentrated or dried juice of the rip arcs and cacti-plants, free from cellulose:

80 parts of the carbohydrate containing extract of the first group (of about 20% moisture), 10 parts of dried blood, and 20 parts of the dry substances containing cellulose of the third group, resulting about 100 parts after drying the mixture.

70 parts of the dry carbo-hydrate matter of the first group (of about 10% moisture), 10 parts of dried blood, and 20 parts of the dry substances containing cellulose of the third group, which gives a total of 100 parts.

"Z parts of the carbo-hydrate extract of the first group (of about 2-036, n'ioisturc), 20 parts of oil-cake meal, or bean meal, and 20 parts of the dry cellulosecontaining substances of the third group, resulting about 100 parts after drying.

' 60 parts of the dry carbo-hydrate matter of tho first grou (of about 1.0% moisture), 20 parts of oil-cal e meal or bean meal, and 20 parts of the dry cellulose containing substance ct the third group- 100 parts.

B. Using the concentrated or dried pulp (which by itself contains cellulose) of the xllgtwee and cactiqplants:

100 parts of the carbo-hydratc containing eXtr ct' of the first roup (of about 20% moisture) luparts of dried blood, resulting about 100 parts after dryin 90 parts of the dry carbohydrate matter of the first. group (of about moisture) and 10 parts of dried blood about 100 parts.

no parts of tile carbo-hydrate containing extract of the first group (of about moisture) and 20 parts of oil-cake meal or bean meal, resulting about 100 parts after drying.

80 parts of the dry carbo-hydrate matter of the first group (about 10% of moisture) and 20 parts of oil-cake meal or bean meal, giving a total of 100 parts.

As it will appear from the foregoing specification I have invented a completely nutritious fodder for cattle mainly com posed of waste materials, up to the present very little exploited.

What I claim is 1-? 1. A conservable, complete fodder consist:- ing of concentrated saccharine juice of the Age/0e plants, and substances rich in organic nitrogenous matter mixed together, dried and ground.

A conservable, complete fodder consisting of concentrated saccharine juice of the rig/awe plants, substances rich in organic nitrogenous, matter, and cellulose-containing products mixed together, and ground.

3. The method of making a conservable, complete fodder which consists in extracting the saccharine juice from the Agave plant's, evaporating the same to the point of conservation, mixing the concentrated juice with substances rich in organic nitrogenous matter, drying the mixture, and grinding the dry mass.

4. The method of making a conservable, complete fodder which consists in extracting the saccharine juice from the Agave plants, evaporating the same to the point of con servation, mixing the concentrated juice with substances rich in organic nitrogenous matter and with cellulose-containing products, drying the mixture, and grinding the dry mass.

In testimony whereof I have aliixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

VA LDEMAR CHRISTENS E )Vitnesses:

bl. Aliens, Finn) U tl-urarrr. 

